Ramadan Kamel, a 71-year-old Egyptian farmer, prepares tea as he rests in a shack in Baharmis, northwest of Cairo, on Dec. 1.

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A young girl stands inside a tent at a makeshift camp on the island of Lesbos, Greece, on Nov. 30. Conditions remain difficult in the overcrowded camp housing more than 18,000 migrants as winter quickly approaches.

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Smokestacks fill the air at Jänschwalde Power Station, the third-largest brown coal power plant in Germany, in Peitz on Nov. 30.

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A man enters his earthquake-damaged home to recover his belongings in Durres, western Albania, on Dec. 2. The 6.4-magnitude quake that hit the Balkan country was the most deadly and destructive in decades.

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Indian sailors take part in Navy Day celebrations at the Gateway of India in Mumbai on Dec. 4.

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A man chants slogans as he marches during an anti-government demonstration in the Algerian capital Algiers on Dec. 3, ahead of the presidential election later this month.

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French President Emmanuel Macron attends a tribute ceremony in Paris on Dec. 2 for 13 French soldiers killed in Mali. In its biggest military funeral in decades, France honored those killed when their helicopters collided over Mali while on a mission fighting extremists affiliated with the Islamic State.

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A man searches garbage in Kabul on Dec. 3.

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Feminist activists holding a Chilean flag take part in a performance against gender violence and patriarchy outside the national stadium in Santiago on Dec. 4.

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A Palestinian man holds up a lion cub while posing for a picture in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on Dec. 3. In April, international animal rights charity Four Paws took all the animals from the Rafah Zoo to sanctuaries, receiving a pledge that the zoo would close forever after accusations of animal mistreatment. The zoo reopened in August with two lions and three new cubs, all penned in tiny cages.

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A masked Iraqi demonstrator stands in al-Rasheed Street in Baghdad during a lull in anti-government protests on Dec. 5.

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A woman sweeps an alleyway adorned with murals painted by artists from the Delhi Street Art group in the Raghubir Nagar slum in New Delhi on Dec. 2.

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An employee of the Pakistan Society for Rehabilitation of the Disabled prepares a prosthetic leg on the International Day of Disabled Persons in Lahore on Dec. 3.

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Mounted police stand guard during an anti-government march in Medellín, Colombia, on Dec. 4.

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Holocaust survivor Leon Schwarzbaum at his home in Berlin on Dec. 4. The 98-year-old former Auschwitz inmate speaks out about the atrocities that took place at the concentration camp. Germany’s Angela Merkel made her first visit as chancellor to the death camp on Dec. 6.

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A man walks a dog by two cargo wagons from World War II used by the Nazis to transport prisoners to the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, standing on the memorial site at the location so-called Judenrampe, where arrival and selection took place, in Oswiecim, Poland, on Dec. 3.

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Children exchange glances at a flooded camp for displaced Syrians near the village of Killi in northwestern Idlib province on Dec. 5.

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Dancers of Russia’s Stanislavsky Ballet warm up at the Palais des Festivals in Cannes, France, on Dec. 4.

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French gendarmes stand amid tear gas during a demonstration during the general strike in Nantes on Dec. 5.

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Palestinian children play with old television sets displayed along a street near their home at the Shati refugee camp in Gaza City on Dec. 6.

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France’s President Emmanuel Macron and Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel watch as U.S. President Donald Trump passes during a group photo as part of the NATO summit in London on Dec. 4.

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A Week in World Photos

A general strike in France, pollution in India, and a NATO family photo in London.